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There is no way to avoid junk mail.\u00a0 The UF email servers get several hundred thousand email messages each day, and the percentage of non-junk mail is approaching single digits.\u00a0 Right now, we are at 90% junk mail and that number is rising.<\/p>\n
There is nothing you can do to avoid junk mail.\u00a0 Any time you are asked for an email address, there is a good chance you will end up on someone’s spam list.\u00a0 That will generate junk mail for you.<\/p>\n
Here is something that I have done for ten years to reduce my own volume of junk.\u00a0 I only give my dog’s address out to people I don’t know.\u00a0 Any time an online form (Flickr, Delicious, etc) asks for an email address, I give them<\/p>\n
scooby@trustyetc.com<\/a><\/p>\n For years it was<\/p>\n alvinsdog@hotmail.com<\/a>\u00a0(free email)<\/p>\n but once I got my own server, I brought it in-house.<\/p>\n There are two important notes concerning this process.<\/p>\n 1 – I still get junk mail, but less of it comes to my main email address. If you are in a hurry and don’t have time to setup an account, use Mailinator<\/a>.\u00a0 You can send a message to any address and the server automatically creates an account on the fly.\u00a0 The email is only stored for two hours, but with no password.\u00a0 Like I said, you do this when you are in a hurry and security isn’t important.\u00a0 If you send something to<\/p>\n alvinsdog@mailinator.com<\/a><\/p>\n the account will be automatically created and you can go\u00a0to the web site and check the message without the bother of setting up another email address for spam.<\/p>\n TSPY=1.32<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There is no way to avoid junk mail.\u00a0 The UF email servers get several hundred thousand email messages each day, and the percentage of non-junk mail is approaching single digits.\u00a0 Right now, we are at 90% junk mail and that … Continue reading
\n2 – I am using a real email address for my junk.\u00a0 If I must get into that account to get something like a confirmation link, I can do it.\u00a0 The important stuff is usually right there at the top of all the junk mail.<\/p>\n